CONTENTS List of Tables vii List of Maps and Figures ix List of Abbreviations and Expressions xiii Acknowledgements xix Introduction Earthquakes in India : Response, Recovery and Impact Mitigation 1 Shirish B Patel 1.Disasters in India: Policy Overview of Vulnerability, Risks and Human Impact 14 Debarati Guha-Sapir and Philippe Hoyois 2.The Uttarkashi Earthquake: Management of Relief and Rehabilitation 39 Rajeev Kapoor 3.Earthquake Reconstruction in Maharashtra : Impact on Assets, Income and Equity 47 Krishna S. Vatsa 4.A Decade of Lessons from Marathwada : Earthquake Vulnerability, Politics and Participatory Housing 79 Alex Salazar and Rohit Jigyasu 5.Women Take the Lead : Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity for Development 118 Prema Gopalan 6.Compounding Disasters - First Natural, then Man-made : Failed Interventions We Can Learn From 142 Sandeep Virmani 7.Planning the Reconstruction of Bhuj 159 B.R. Balachandran 8.Participative Rehabilitation : A Dilemma 204 M.N. Joglekar 9.Lessons from the Gujarat Experience : Disaster Mitigation and Management 223 V. Thiruppugazh and Sudhir Kumar 10. Disaster Management in India : Policy Interventions and Recent Initiatives 238 Anil K. Sinha, Dr Satendra and Shikha Srivastava 11. Seismic Retrofitting of Existing Non-Engineered Load-Bearing Structures 255 Rajendra Desai 12. Medical Management of Earthquake Disasters 291 BrigKJSingh 13. Trauma after Earthquakes : Mitigating the Psychosocial and Mental Effects 316 R. Srinivasa Murthy 14. Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Management : Developing Risk Models for the Insurance Industry337 Haresh C. Shah and Weimin Dong Afterword by Aromar Revi 384 About the Editors 405 Notes on Contributors 407 Index 415